Kai Tyler: “...you came out fully grown, sporting a handgun” #MWTease #mmromance #comingsoon

Welcome back to Mid-Week Tease hosted by the lovely Sandra Bunino. It's been a while since I posted on #MWTease. Unfortunately life has a way of intruding into the fun of writing. So I had to take a break for a few weeks.

But I'm back and happy to announce that Duce releases in a matter of weeks. 19 days to be exact!
I'm currently working with my editor to finish the editing.

In the meantime I thought I'd tease you guys a little. :-)

If you visit this blog regularly, you'll know I have a thing for Eduardo Verastegui. All you have to do is check out the right hand bar of this blog for confirmation >>>>>>>>>>

He is the inspiration for Dante Orsino in the World End series. If you don't know who he is, he is a Mexican musician/actor/producer. And my initial inspiration for Carlos was Heath Ledger but as I got to toward the end of the story I needed a more current inspiration. And I soon as I saw Alex Pettyfer it clicked.

So today, I'm showing off my dream cast for Duce as well as a quick teaser. Enjoy.

“I love the beach. You know, my mum used to take my brother and me when we were boys and we would play with other kids, building sand castles and playing knights and dragons.” He shoved his hands into the pockets of his cargo shorts, his eyes acquiring a faraway glaze.

For a moment, we stood side by side on the edge of the walkway, listening to the waves crashing against the grains, the world in motion around our stationary bodies. From the moment I'd met him and in the little time we'd spent together, he'd always been energetic, talkative and full of life. So to see him standing still, without my prompting, there had to be some memory from the past weighing him down.

I wanted to reach out and take his hand in mine, to reassure him and take away the sadness the seemed to hover over him. But I was also hyper aware of our location and the fact that we were visible to prying eyes from all directions.

“I did that too when I was a boy although I didn’t have a brother,” I said, choosing to lighten his mood instead.

"No freaking way, man." He glanced at me and his eyes twinkled with mischief, his body animated again. “Somehow I can’t picture Mr Dark Dangerous and Domineering as a boy who played with sand castles. I imagined you came out fully grown, wearing a tailored silk cashmere suit, a pair of Moro Mon-Strap alligator skin shoes and sporting a handgun in your back strap.”

He winked at me before running down toward the shore, his movements playful. I chuckled as tilted my head to watch him. His observations about me were on the money. Although today I had on a beige linen suit and crocodile loafers. And my hand gun was hidden in a strap under my jacket.

He would’ve seen the hand gun in the hotel room. As a tool of my trade, I rarely went anywhere without it. Even when I didn’t have business on my mind, I couldn’t get away from the life I lived.

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Series: Worlds' End, Book 2

Genre: M/M Romance, Gay, Suspense, Mafia, Dystopian

Release date: Oct 19, 2015

Blurb

One mafia boss.
One rival's son.
One deadly setup.

Parties and orgies... those are the things Carlos Carmichael wants to do. It's the only way he knows to deal with his life as the son of a notorious cartel boss. He'll get whatever he wants by any means necessary.

Until he tangles with a man who plays by totally different rules.

Dante Orsino has been raised in the old ways of honor, loyalty and respect of the business. His role as mafia underboss is more than just a job. It also makes him an heir to one of the biggest families in the Southern Territories.

When Carlos meets Dante and plays a silly game, their weekend tryst sparks a deadly cartel war.

For Dante there's no other life except—the life. And he wants Carlos in his. But in the New World, a gay man is a dead man. Can he find a way to keep everything he loves and stay alive?

In a new world gone mad, even the good guys are bad. Welcome to the World's End series.

Available to Pre-Order